Culture media manufacturing · Missouri

Patheon Biologics St. Louis

St. Louis, MO · ~500 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Patheon Biologics St. Louis runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Patheon Biologics St. Louis: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Patheon Biologics St. Louis safety composite

Patheon Biologics St. Louis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Patheon Biologics St. Louis: 0.4 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2018

Patheon Biologics St. Louis's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.4 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · St. Louis, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Elanco Fort Dodge
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~500 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elanco Fort Dodge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Patheon Biologics St. Louis in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Patheon Biologics St. Louis averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Patheon Biologics St. Louis TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Patheon Biologics St. Louis falls in its industry

234 Culture media manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Culture media manufacturing employers in Missouri.

Patheon Biologics St. Louis (500 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Patheon Biologics St. Louis
Patheon Biologics St. Louis (500 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Patheon Biologics St. Louis has more employees than the Culture media manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 2.6 1.7 17 0 0
2016 0.4 0.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · MO · St. Louis

234 Culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 686 employers in St. Louis, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Elanco Fort Dodge 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brammer Bio Florida 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protein Sciences Corporation, a Delaware Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies Texas, LLC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Columbia MO 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE KraftHeinz-Columbia 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield Grocer Company, Inc 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE STL - Ground Ops 501 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monsanto - St. Louis 6,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Medical Center 3,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABI Corporation 2,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Louis University Hospital 2,084 FTE
NAT-TCR Toyota New Car Store 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR McMillin Texas Management Services, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oh101-Lpz-Oh101 Strongsville Wh 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Advance Trailer Systems 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mountain Valley Express Inc. 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE LTD Aurora (Westridge) # 7 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN,BEMIDJI - Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 500 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.